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Date Of Record Release: 2007-09-27 15:41:25
Title: The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Jonathan C. Gold
One Sentence Summary: The Dharma’s Gatekeepers offers an incisive analysis of one of the most important works in Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history: Sakya Pandita’s Gateway to Learning (Mkhas pa ’jug pa’i sgo).

Description: The Dharma’s Gatekeepers offers an incisive analysis of one of the most important works in Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history: Sakya Pandita’s Gateway to Learning (Mkhas pa ’jug pa’i sgo). Writing in a time when a distinctively Tibetan tradition of Buddhism was first emerging, Sakya Pandita wanted to present Tibetan intellectuals with what he took to be an authentically Indian (and therefore, authentically Buddhist) understanding of the nature and tasks of intellectual life—with a view of how scholarship was understood and practiced in the great monastic
colleges of India.

In The Dharma’s Gatekeepers, we see Sakya Pandita building the intellectual foundation for Tibetan scholasticism through a series of subtle, brilliant,
and quintessentially Buddhist arguments about the nature of learning itself, with his elaboration of a model of scholastic education skillfully drawing together ideas in Buddhist epistemology, philosophy of language, translation theory, hermeneutics, and literary theory. In this study of Sakya Pandita’s remarkable work, Jonathan C.
Gold shows that the Gateway to Learning addresses issues that remain of concern to contemporary intellectuals; this thirteenth-century work has much to contribute to our understanding of such issues as translation and translatability, theories of reading and authorship, the connections between religious values and academic institutions, and theories of language and literary aesthetics. The book includes a translation of significant parts of
Sakya Pandita’s text.

Publisher Place: Albany
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Normalized publisher place: Albany, NY
Publisher country: United States
Publisher URL: http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61478
Published Date: 2007
ISBN/ISSN: 0791471659
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Date Of Record Creation: 2007-09-27 15:45:58
Date Record Checked: 2007-09-27
Date Last Modified: 2007-09-27 15:45:58
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